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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Life is not short

820

2

Thunderbird 102

811

3

Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

769

4

How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

766

5

Things to know about databases

730

6

Enclave: An Unpickable Lock

684

7

YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

682

8

Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)

642

9

Give up GitHub: The time has come

610

10

Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

606

Top Ask HN

1

GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?

710

2

Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?

349

3

Can I see your cheatsheet?

346

4

Who is hiring? (July 2022)

328

5

What is your Kubernetes nightmare?

220

6

Where and how do you find your early adoptors?

180

7

Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?

168

8

If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?

129

9

How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

126

10

Where have all the forums gone?

116

Top Show HN

1

I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch

663

2

Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present

497

3

PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL

378

4

I ranked news websites by speed

320

5

Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer

193

6

Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT

165

7

We made a fast audio editor for podcasting

154

8

Featureform – An open-source Feature Store for ML

136

9

UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

129

10

MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

88

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Unity is laying off hundreds of employees

372

2

Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3

326

3

The GPU shortage is over

302

4

FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs

295

5

Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

221

6

Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs

185

7

Labrador's robotic shelf for people with mobility issues

112

8

EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)

110

9

Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants

85

10

13-year-old voice recorder captured my entire professional career

78

News [?]

1

Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

769

2

FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns

536

3

Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn

461

4

Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

448

5

Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

375

6

Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’

338

7

How Hong Kong became a police state

278

8

Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

265

9

Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr

213

10

New California law requires high schools to start later

202

Scientific publications [?]

1

Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)

371

2

Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol

341

3

AI-guided robots are ready to sort recyclables

100

4

Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older

92

5

Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos

63

6

Bayesian Workflow (2020)

49

7

Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards

44

8

Landsat proved the power of remote sensing

40

9

Shacl: A Description Logic in Disguise

32

10

Signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)

30

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love

371

2

Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor

203

3

Thank you to our maintainers

193

4

The Path Is Set for PCI-Express 7.0 in 2025

108

5

Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

98

6

Xcode 14 deprecates bitcode for watchOS and tvOS

66

7

Becoming a Better Engineering Team

65

8

The first RISC-V laptop announced with quad-core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux support

64

9

GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages

44

10

Highlights from Git 2.37

36

Tech blogs [?]

1

Optical microphone can separate multiple instruments from afar

222

2

Former Apple exec who enforced insider trading rules admits to insider trading

202

3

CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

143

4

TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes and move to 28nm

114

5

Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro with M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds

49

6

Tools: Proxxon Mini Drill Press TBM115 / TBM220 (2009)

39

7

T-Mobile is now selling app usage data to advertisers

38

8

EFF: Security and privacy tips people seeking abortion

17

9

Apple TV+ has highest-rated content of any streaming service for 2nd year in row

13

10

macOS from 1984 to 2022 – a fascinating video trip down memory lane

13

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microwriter: A portable, one-handed word processor with 6 button keypad (1978)

7

2

Toll fraud malware: How an Android application can drain your wallet

4

3

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022 [pdf]

3

4

Amazon CodeWhisperer – ML-powered coding companion

3

5

Amazon CodeWhisperer: Build apps faster with ML-powered coding companion

2

6

An Overview of the CAL Time-Sharing System [pdf]

2

7

The New AWS Step Functions Workflows Collection

2

8

Escaping the Build Trap

1

9

MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 Processor

1

10

Easy Learning Java (kindle book)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record

193

2

Geometric exercises in paper folding (1917)

61

3

Chestnut Tools Universal Sharpener – Popular Woodworking Magazine (2016)

60

4

Condemning the Deployment of GPT-4chan

44

5

Taiyo No Tamago

39

6

The ideal praise-to-criticism ratio (2013)

37

7

The Moroccan Food Forest That Inspired an Agricultural Revolution

27

8

Spotify, Netflix, and Aggregation

22

9

Our Trip to Antioch

16

10

What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?

13

Science News [?]

1

MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)

428

2

Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

398

3

Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold

275

4

The gut metabolite indole-3 propionate promotes nerve regeneration and repair

233

5

How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life

154

6

People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research

150

7

Are you a naïve realist?

133

8

Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers vanish (2013)

130

9

How are the bees?

112

10

CandyCodes: Simple unique edible identifiers for authenticating pharmaceuticals

96

Social [?]

1

There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask

456

2

Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

454

3

Tech layoffs keep stacking up

288

4

Lego Battle of Verdun [video]

269

5

Super Mario Bros warp zones were intended to work slightly differently [video]

254

6

As eng manager, you so frequently get request to drop what you are doing

178

7

The popularity of country music in rural sub Saharan Africa

143

8

Severe thermal throttling discovered in Apple's M2 MacBook Pro

123

9

How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]

103

10

An employee at EpicGames wants me to fill out this questionnaire to use my OSS

85

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly

587

2

Functional programming jargon in plain English

557

3

The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges

439

4

Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables

252

5

251

6

VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon

218

7

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

208

8

Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub

168

9

Deprank: Use PageRank to find the most important files in your codebase

164

10

Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API

157

Wikipedia [?]

1

William of Rubruck

75

2

Mponeng Gold Mine

69

3

Quantum Zeno effect

66

4

Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder

28

5

Corporate Memphis

22

6

“Wikipedia's independence” or “Wikimedia's pile of dosh”?

21

7

13

8

Hitler and Mannerheim Recording

11

9

Jury Nullification

9

10

Magnetocaloric Refrigeration

9

Blogs [?]

1

“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

537

2

The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

217

3

Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge

80

4

Java's Cover (2001)

50

5

Flow Batteries Are Here and They Will Change Everything

46

6

Blacklist is not a racist word

45

7

Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest

42

8

Notes on Running Containers with Bubblewrap

38

9

Sentence Embeddings have a problem, the reason sometimes Dall-E2 fails

23

10

Misunderstood Parts of the Scrum Guide

20

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?

601

2

Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?

302

3

Where did the long tail go?

281

4

Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids)

257

5

USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets

204

6

4 in 5 Americans who need insulin have taken on credit card debt to cover cost

194

7

Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival

185

8

Who is going to replace Google for us?

173

9

How do poor countries get rich?

153

10

Basement Fertility

137